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Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

András Rónai, Freelance writer, Hungary & Anna Szemere, Central European University, Hungary For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I’ll Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising at times drastically re-imagined cover versions of Hungary’s most popular hits from the socialist era. The album exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock and jazz musical artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing with personas, voices and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501354427 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501354434 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501354441 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501354458 • £17.04 / $20.65

Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology

Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, USA From countercultural resistance to world music craze, Balkan music captured the attention of global audiences. Balkanology, the 1991 quintessential album of Bulgarian music, highlights this moment of unbridled creativity. Seasoned musicians all over the world are still in awe of the technical abilities of the musicians in Ansambl Trakia—their complex additive rhythms, breakneck speeds, stunning improvisations, dense ornamentation, chromatic passages, and innovative modulations. Bridging folk, jazz, and rock sensibilities, Trakia’s music has set the standard for Bulgarian music until today, and its members, especially Ivo Papazov, are revered stars at home and abroad. The album reveals how Romani (Gypsy) artists resisted the state’s prohibition against Romani music and fashioned a genre that became a youth movement in Bulgaria, and then a world music phenomenon. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 144 pages PB 9781501346293 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346309 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePdf 9781501346323 • £17.04 / $20.65

Various Artists' DJs do Guetto

Richard Elliott, Newcastle University, UK Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can’t fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and Nidia Minaj. These DJs and producers are bringing the sound of the Lisbon projects to wider world via international club nights, festival appearances, recordings and remix projects for artists such as Panda Bear, Fever Ray and Elza Soares. This book uses the 2006 compilation DJs do Guetto as a prism for exploring this music’s aesthetics and its roots in Lusophone Africa, its evolution in the immigrant communities of Lisbon and its journey from there to the world. The story is one of encounters: between people, sounds, neighborhoods, technologies and cultural contexts. Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee

Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, USA By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, the East German playwright, Heiner Müller, and the West German composer, Heiner Goebbels, created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the “crisis of Europe” today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified?

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501346149 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346156 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501346163 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501346170 • £17.04 / $20.65

ePub 9781501346316 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday

Sean Nye, University of Southern California, USA Modeselektor, the notorious Berlin duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released Happy Birthday! in 2007. Engaging with this album, this book provides a unique lens through which to examine current trends in European pop and electronic music history beyond standard examples of German pop and electronic music, such as Kraftwerk and Rammstein. Employing theories of popular culture and electronic music in the 2000s, especially Simon Reynolds’s books Retromania and Energy Flash, Happy Birthday! argues for an updated study of electronic music and rave culture in twentieth-first century Europe,

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501346255 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346248 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501346262 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501346279 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

with specific focus on German studies.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501357848 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501357831 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501357855 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501357862 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

Nenes' Koza Dabasa

Okinawa in the World Music Market Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. Both a tropical island paradise and the site of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Okinawa has a unique culture and a contentious history. Nenes marks its cultural difference as Okinawan by emphasizing its own exoticism, expressed through its music, fashion, imagery, and performance style. Henry Johnson listens to Koza Dabasa as a representation of Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese music industry and with the broader themes of international warfare and local tourism.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781501351235 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501351242 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501351259 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501351266 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Jorge Ben Jor’s África Brasil

Frederick Josef Moehn, King’s College London, UK 1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his ‘samba-rock’ fusions and hits such as ‘País Tropical’ and ‘Mas que Nada’, picks up the electric guitar and records the album África Brasil. Through a close examination of the tracks on this seminal album—recorded during a growing cultural negritude of the time in Brazil, especially in Rio—this book explores how Jorge Ben Jor and fellow musicians created a new sound, and probes how ideas about blackness, Africa, and Brazilian identity were evolving during the mid-1970s.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 160 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781501309120 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501309113 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501309144 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501309137 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic

Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour

Food, Gender, Rock and Roll Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Carleton College, USA Shonen Knife—an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan—has cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. The 1998 album Happy Hour encapsulates the band’s allure via its fusion of punk rock and cute aesthetics in the service of lyrics focused on food. Saturated in lyrics about edibles from sushi to banana chips, the record initially appears to be a cute pop punk homage to girl power. Brooke McCorkle explores how, embedded in the seemingly straightforward music and lyrics of the album, lies an aesthetic that challenges historical norms regarding gender roles in popular culture.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781501347948 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501347955 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501347962 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501347979 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Racionais MCs' Sobrevivendo no Inferno

Derek Pardue, Aarhus University, Denmark In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the ‘Rational’ MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip hop scene in São Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when rappers needed to defend the very idea that their work was indeed music and a time when neighborhoods such as Capão Redondo, from where Racionais frontman Mano Brown hailed, often topped homicide statistics, Sobrevivendo empowered as it provoked.

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501338830 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501338878 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501338847 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501338854 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic

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DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media

Ellis Jones, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new “DIY” cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted? DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. It shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this “DIY-as-default” landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to “do-it-yourself.”

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 192 pages • 5 black & white images PB 9781501359637 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501359644 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501359651 • £21.92 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501359668 • £21.92 / $26.95

21st-Century Dylan

Late and Timely Edited by Adrian Grafe, Claire Hélie, University of Lille, France, Andrew McKeown, University of Poitiers, France & Laurence Estanove, Université Paris Descartes, France Dylan has never ceased to broaden the range of his creative identity, taking in painting, film, acting, and prose writing, as well as advertising and even own-brand commercial production. The book highlights how Dylan has brought his persona(e) to different art forms and cultural arenas, and how they in turn have also created these personae. This volume consists of multidisciplinary essays written by cultural historians, musicologists, literary academics, and film experts including contributions by critics Christopher Ricks and Nina Goss. ePdf 9781501363719 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Scary Monsters

Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music Mark Duffett, University of Chester, UK & Jon Hackett, St Mary’s University, UK Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more ‘monsters’ than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between the music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture. Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

Live from the Other Side of Nowhere

Contemplating Musical Performance in an Age of Virtual Reality Sam Cleeve, Birmingham City University, UK In recent years VR has become an increasingly prevalent platform for musical performance— Björk, U2, Gorillaz, and even the LA Philharmonic all having taken to the virtual stage. These virtual encounters profoundly disrupt assumptions long held to be true of live music, undermining the necessity of physical and temporal co-presence, exploding our expectations of performance spaces, opening up new possibilities for performance involving avatars, and affording intimate encounters otherwise impossible in the physical world. Live from the Other Side of Nowhere begins to pry apart the conceptual challenges that this disruptive technology poses to our understanding of the ‘live’ as an autonomous category of musical activity.

PB 9781501346361 • £22.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501346354 • £72.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501346378 • £21.10 / $25.15 ePdf 9781501346385 • £21.10 / $25.15 Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 272 pages HB 9781501363696 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363702 • £88.50 / $108.00 UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 208 pages

A Women’s History of the Beatles

Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia A Women’s History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band’s social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews and ethnography (including autoethnography), textual analysis, and archival research, this work depicts the myriad ways that the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women from the band’s 1960s heyday onward. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles the book uncovers all the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781501348037 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501348044 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501348051 • £95.81 / $117.00

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UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781501313370 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501313394 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501313387 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music

Nikos Ordoulidis, University of Ioannina, Greece During the 1940s and 1950s, a selective exoneration of urban popular music took place, one of its most popular cases being the originating relationships between two extremely popular musical pieces: Vasilis Tsitsanis’s “Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki” (Cloudy Sunday) and its descent from the hymn “Ti Ypermacho” (The Akathist Hymn). During this period the connection of these two pieces was forged in the Modern Greek conscience, led by certain key figures in the authority system of the scholarly world. Through analysis of these pieces the surrounding contexts, Ordoulidis explores the changing role and perception of popular music in Greece.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 224 pages HB 9781501369445 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501369452 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501369469 • £81.19 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic